The Goettlings: Sophia Goettling (Part 2)

Continuing the Goettling family! Sophia is Ernest's sister. See "Part 1" post here.

Sophia Goettling

Sophia Goettling was born on February 28, 1870, in Beinstein, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. She married John Jacob Dinger and they had six children together (Walter G, Albert, Otto, Edward W, Victor E and Edith Delona). John died July 12, 1900. She then married Fredlieb Lautenschlager in 1917. She died in 1945 in Waterloo, Ontario, at the age of 75.

I couldn't find much on her beyond some Canadian census records. Her headstone was on Canada Gen Web, and another Ancestry user had uploaded her obituary.

Photo by Doug Smith via CanadaGenWeb

Mrs. Sophie Lautenschlager, a highly respected resident of New Dundee for many years passed away on Saturday after a brief illness at the home of her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. L. Bacher, 744 King St. E., Kitchener.

She was born in Germany 75 years ago on Feb. 28, 1870, a daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Gottlieb Goettling. She came to Ontario with her parents at an early age and the family settled at Pine Hill. She was first married to John Jacob Dinger who predecesased her in 1900 and in 1917 she married Friedlieb Lautenschlager who passed away in 1932. Since the death of her husband the late Mrs. Lautenschlager has made her home with her son, Victor Dinger, New Dundee. The deceased was a member of the local Baptist Church and of the Women's Missionary Circle.

Surviving are: five sons, Walter, Albert, Otto and Edward Dinger of the United States and Victor Dinger of New Dundee; one daughter, Mrs. L. (Edith) Bacher, Kitchener; three stepsons, Phillip Lautenschlager, Southampton; Alvin Lautenschlager, New Dundee, and Sydney Lautenschlager, Kitchener; eleven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Pauline Riehm of Kitchener; and five brothers, Christian, Gottlieb and Ernest Goettling of the United States, William Goettling, New Dundee and Albert Goettling of Kitchener R.R. 2.

The funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock from the home of her son, Victor Dinger to the Baptist Church for service. Rev. H.F. Schade will officiate and interment will be made in thew New Dundee Union Cemetery.

I suspect Sophia has quite a few living descendants between 6 children, most of who went on to have families of their own as far as I can tell. :) So it's just a matter of tracking one of them down or one of them stumbling across the blog!